Leigh Scott
| Leigh Scott | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 18, 1972 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Occupation | Producer, Film director, Writer |
Leigh Scott (born Leigh Scott Andrew Slawner; February 18, 1972) is an American film director, writer, producer, actor and cinematographer.[1]
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[edit] Early life and career
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he is the eldest of three children. He attended Rufus King High School. He has two sisters, Erica and Amber, and is the son of Ben and Laura Slawner. In 1990, Scott moved to Los Angeles, California to attend the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Upon graduation in 1994, he went to work for Roger Corman's Concorde Pictures. While working for Corman he learned the basics of low and no budget film production. After leaving Concorde, he went on to produce, direct and star in two feature films Beach House and Art House. Neither film garnered financial or critical success.
After a brief hiatus, he returned to Los Angeles and went to work for independent production company The Asylum. While at The Asylum, he worked on over fifteen films in a span of two years. He has become known for responding directly to his critics on IMDb.
Currently, Scott is the head of Blackthorn Industries L.L.C., a New York based film production and distribution company. His films are produced under the Imaginarium Studios film banner.
[edit] Films
Besides the two comedies Beach House and Art House, his films have primarily been in the exploitation film genre, including horror films, sci-fi films and fantasy films.
Some films of his films include Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse, The Beast of Bray Road, Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers, The 9/11 Commission Report and Transmorphers. He was the line producer and even made a brief appearance in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, one of three 2005 film adaptations of the H.G. Wells novel.
Scott also directed and appeared in Pirates of Treasure Island, an adaptation of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, in which Scott appeared as Ben Gunn.
Scott has also appeared in other film productions by The Asylum, including: Invasion of the Pod People, The Apocalypse, and Hillside Cannibals.
His most recent production is The Witches of Oz starring Christopher Lloyd, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Paulie Rojas, Lance Henriksen, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Combs, and Ethan Embry. The film is a modern adaptation of L.Frank Baum's world of Oz. It contains elements from the books The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Magic of Oz, Ozma of Oz and The Road to Oz.
[edit] Politics
Through his interviews and blogs on Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood, Scott has expressed his political views. He is a self described Libertarian with some socially conservative views. His film The 9/11 Commission Report was screened at the conservative Liberty Film Festival.[2] His columns have been quoted by Rush Limbaugh, The New Yorker, and The New York Times and have been reposted on the popular conservative website Hot Air (news site).
